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2 rare elephants found dead in Indonesian jungle (AP)

2 rare elephants found dead in Indonesian jungle

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Two rare Sumatran elephants believed to have been poisoned with cyanide-laced pineapples were found dead in the jungles of northwestern Indonesia with their tusks removed, a conservationist said.





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Sichuan earthquake caused significant damage to giant panda habitat

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, it left more than 69,000 people dead and 4.3 million homeless. Now ecologists have added to these losses an assessment of the earthquake's impact ...


WCS study on birds and streams included in federal guidelines to safeguard waterways

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The results of a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study that rapidly measures stream habitat have been adopted by a government agency working with private landowners to restore waterways throughout the U.S.


Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants

Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants

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created Aug 09, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new WWF study tracking pygmy elephants by satellite shows that the remaining herds of these endangered elephants, which live only on the island of Borneo, are under threat from forest fragmentation and loss ...


Researcher finds forest birds ‘commuting’ to attract mates

Researcher finds forest birds 'commuting' to attract mates

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ecologist at the University of Rhode Island studying habitat use by a forest-dwelling game bird found that the birds unexpectedly exhibited what he described as "the bar scene phenomenon" ...


Why Female Water Buffalo Have Horns but Impala Do Not?

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The reason some female hoofed animals have horns while others do not has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, even the great Charles Darwin. But now a survey of 117 bovid species led by Ted Stankowich, professor ...


Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska (AP)

Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.


No place like home: Africa's big cats show postcode preference

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The secret lives of some of Africa's iconic carnivores, including big cats, are revealed in a new study in Animal Conservation, today.


Government to remap manatee habitat

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It has been more than 30 years since federal wildlife managers formally mapped the places where endangered manatee live in Florida. On Tuesday, they acknowledged it's probably time for an update.


Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Happy flies look for a place like home

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A happy youth can influence where a fruit fly chooses to live as an adult, according to new research in The American Naturalist. The study, led by Judy Stamps from the University of Califo ...


A 234 year-old plant known as a cycad at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew

UK botanists bank 10% of world's plant species

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a long-term project to protect all endangered species, they said Thursday.



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